If your life is your biggest project, why not design it? | Ayse Birsel | TEDxCannes

Ayse Birsel believes that if you have the desire to explore your life from a new point of view, think about it proactively, and change it creatively, there is a way to design the life you love.
Birsel is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, an award-winning, New York design studio working with Fortune 500 companies to bring simplicity, systems-thinking and humanism to the complex problems of life, work, experiences, products and business. The author of Design the Life You Love, a book inspired by her coursework applying the design process and tools to your life, Birsel was recently identified by Fast Company as one of the world’s Most Creative People in 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@tefypozo334]

The most important thing about this video is to let you know that you have the possibility to design your future. It means that only you can choose your dreams and goals, you have the power to decide about your life, if you think you need it you can change your lifestyle because you can do as many things as you think you can. It is important to take the advantages that life gives you to get far And remember, your lifestyle depends on you.

[@danielalejandrodelgadovarg9654]

Tefy Pozo Self-confidence is essential to fulfill a dream and to go far depends only on the work of each one, on their commitment and on their interest in achieving a goal.

[@stellaracha5782]

Thank you. Puts a life time if planning into prospective..🎉

[@DoaaNow]

How to design your life: 1- deconstruct your life and take away the parts you don’t like 2- identify your values and define your heroes and why they are your hero. Your heroes connect you do your values. 3- reconstruction: based on your values: How to design your life: create a tree (actually draw one): consider your roots. Where do you come from. How has that defined you. The trunk: what you present to the world, branches: the future. 4- Expression: visualize the life you want to live to make it happen. Be playful and optimistic throughout. Design an original life that is coherent with who you are and what you stand for and even how you like it to smell. Go live it.

[@Supermiranda78]

Thank you

[@gopikrish2779]

Wow - Thank you!!!

[@user-pe3se1pk8i]

Thanks for your summary!

[@Zoomjah]

Love how brief and to the point this is. Will have to give this a shot. Thank you so much for for sharing!

[@prathapjainimboriboonporn5570]

Doa’a Akram thx❤️

[@rush8222]

so what i took from this is look at the same things differently, approach your problems with creativity, and create your own road map.

[@exoticpash8823]

"Every challenge in life is an opportunity to think creatively" great words

[@dennisr.levesque2320]

I'm glad to see that someone is finally beginning to see, that design is more than just aesthetics/fashion. The better you are at engineering, the better you are recognizing the value of function. The better you are at valuing function, the better you are at engineering. It's a positive feedback loop. You'll get there. It's your life, and only can live it. Good luck.

[@bashful228]

"someone is finally beginning to see" ? Ayse Birsel is a designer, all designers know these things, even if they can't articulate it this well. It's part of the designers code.

[@dennisr.levesque2320]

@@bashful228 Not all designers are the same. Just like not all vision is the same. My comment was more about the phenomenon that the majority of stuff "out there" is borderline dysfunctional (but don't it look good anyway?).

[@lividkitten]

I like her advice to just design my life and see my life as my biggest project. Thank you Ms. Birsel.

[@umusagalinantiabdi2794]

Yeah we can oll be designers ov lyfs....

[@mahjabinfahima2344]

Most of us went through a roadmap as how to build a life. Instead of walk in predominant way we should design our own life with creativity. Nice speech.

[@LearningEnglishwithDrTin]

Yeah, I am designing my life, I have a huge project in this year is to get band 7 IELTS. I know my English is still not good but I always believe myself that I will do it. Because of my future, I have a lot of aim to achieve and one of them will be a good IELTS band.

[@mpower4790]

heyy,so did u get 7 ?

[@nuryusufdiriye7561]

dıd you get that score or stıll ?

[@soulaimanebassidi6146]

thank you very much I watched your video and I change my point of view of my life, and I noted these ideas : If we can visualize the life we want to live, we can make it happen, - separate all parts and things, change the point of view to any parts and things in your life, design your life as you design aboard , our values are the foundations of our life, designing your life can transform it, Expression is giving form to our ideas, thank you for this helpful conference

[@siphiwengubane426]

Can we just talk about her love outfit, love it. And that necklace is truly a work of art❤

[@chrismadu7730]

I want to believe she designed that

[@vikyproject681]

When i see someone who always smiling like her, she must be very happy from the inside and live in exciting life :). Let's redesign our mind, live in our dream life.

[@micaelaoleas5962]

According to Birsel the life is our big project,which is designed with values, that it must be original and describe as we really are. I want to stand out the steps that are mentioned by Birsel in the video are: First, deconstruct your life. Second, identify your values and define your heroes. Third, reconstruction: based on your values and, finally expression: visualize the life you want to live to make it happen. She gaves a messange "If you can visualize your goals, then you will do it". In my opinion I agree because she expose that the best way for living is be happy and the best part of the video was when Ayse said " when you were a child you dindt have fraid to do errors", for this reason I like this video.

[@arlinegeorge6967]

Beautiful impressive amazing soul . Evolve ,design the life you want to live . Thank you, bless you . All your dreams come true.

[@KD-cd9bo]

What a beautiful, eloquent, creative woman. Thank you for this!

[@elsagrace3893]

Kshiti D what a privileged, lucky, pontificating woman.

[@danielalejandrodelgadovarg9654]

Watching this type of videos is very satisfying and fills each person's self-esteem, being able to see beyond everyday life and realize what we really are worth and what we are capable of is a gift The personal improvement and the interest of each one to overcome is something that must be strengthened daily, it is important to realize the things we can achieve if we put interest in the things that life gives us daily

[@TheSundance11]

I believe there was purpose behind the way she designed her presentation. Not being specific as for her to personally design your life...she allows you to use your brain, your mind, your spirit and circumstance to flex your courage to trust yourself to chill, and have fun, and joy in designing your new life for you...by leaving enough unsaid, or by giving you the squeleton you can put the clothes on the way it fits you. God bless her...and you.

[@GB-gt7yz]

I enjoyed your talk. Thank you for sharing your designer mind. Helping me to see from a different perspective. Ready to approach my life differently.

[@jennynguyen2272]

I gained a lot of ideas by this inspring video. Thank you.

[@anayazan9348]

Hi, so life is our biggest project, we have to be objectives with our life, we have to see it in another point of view, just like seeing the same parts of our life differently and being the best at what we love. Ayse said that our values are the foundation of our life. I think that sometimes we visualize our life in a not concrete way, almost without ideals and we never really see what matters, what really matters to us. We need to reconstruct ourselves from the inside to the outside.

[@emilyalban499]

Yes, that is the meaning of life. We must take advantage of opportunities to live to the fullest through obstacles, emphasizing that values are our human power

[@tefypozo334]

Ana Yazán I agree whit your opinion, because is more importan kwon about the proyect of the life, know what we want for our life, sometimes it is good to be able to rebuild ourselves seeking to be better, based on our values ​​and dreams to follow

[@skb9232]

though I didnt understand even a bit about how to design my deconstructed life, but still I liked the video and her struggle to make younger people design their life😊

[@safespaceasmr7166]

Create your own steps.

[@elsagrace3893]

safe space ASMR example please. Vagueness is not helpful.

[@safespaceasmr7166]

@@elsagrace3893 "Design your life" is a book by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Mabey they can be more helpful.

[@safespaceasmr7166]

@@elsagrace3893 1 learn from others. Find people who inspire you and topics that feed your soul. Dig deep! 2 create a plan. Ask people you admire how they achieved the goal You're interested in. Don't get to attached to the plan or road map you created. 3 create a clear direction on where you want to go 4 write down interest and hobbies that you can transform into a clear goal. 5 be enthusiastic about your vision 6 start to envision your dream life is how you want it to be 7 visualise...

[@safespaceasmr7166]

I hope that helps a little bit.

[@franktheflyer]

Ayse summarizes her elegant design process as it applies to the most important place you could use it = Your Own Life. It offers food for reflection that might be worth remembering time and time again.

[@annalucky_world]

It is amazing speech. We are creators of our life. Every area of our life is in our hands. We just need to believe in it and expand willpower !!

[@erginsagtas6598]

I enjoyed this talk. Thank you.

[@veeherreraJanecka]

What a lovely lady. And I love this presentation. What an important topic.

[@punnaroothsrimongkolsilp6279]

Thank you so much for teaching me.

[@jksenglish5115]

This is beautiful. Thank you.

[@mariarosales7717]

Gracias por compartir,la vida está llena de retos y si uno no se anima a dar el paso para avanzar y lograr lo que uno desea hacer,nadie lo va a dar por uno,avanza si te caes o no sale como lo deseas levántate y vuelve a intentarlo hasta lograrlo. sólo creé en ti y lograrás realizarte.

[@valeriemonday9649]

love this

[@marcusfiniosse1477]

kinda made sense in lot of ways. i got few ideas i can implement in my own life from her speech.

[@anthonammal7998]

A need for self reflection will take us on a journey of redesigning our life.

[@dariusmetos]

İngilizcenize bayıldım. Congrats.

[@janiramirama9653]

This video leaves us a very beautiful teaching for our lives as people, it teaches us to be objectives, to have objectives and goals to fight for day by day, not to give up easily until we achieve our purposes, to have objectives both to improve and people and for our future, this also depends on the decisions we make, we must make decisions for our good, but not crush others, this is not only about being objective, but also we must be kind and help others and not only see for our sake, but obviously our priority is us but in that process, we can also help those who need and be successful not by leaving others aside but apart from being objective for being kind and generous with the rest.

[@hmmm8158]

That's such a meaningful speech, however, a lot of us are confused by the opportunities that cause tremendous confusion to ourselves, despite the fact that having a schedule will be vital to your life, regardless having some days that will be out of the designation. In conclusion, life can not be planned for long-term, merely for short-term in my opinion.

[@pamyawonsharon6336]

Thank you🖤

[@johnkeithrobinson7399]

good job keep up the good work

[@tashidolkarsamdrupling5720]

Thank you 🙏 so much

[@joseantoniogarciarivas8042]

Hey guys, this reminds me of the GTD system from David Allen, what other tools you know out there for personal planning and organization? I'm currently using Evernote for Windows, with the GTD foundation.

[@silaeser9320]

Inspirational, thanks.

[@kinyungukinyanjui3459]

I dont understand what some rude jokers are complaining about. Maybe she was not speaking to you but every part of it is very important n very real.

[@melissa4856]

Thank you for sharing 😄 A great message!

[@cabdicasiisabdeeq4501]

Thank you

[@damien-ramos]

Bravo !

[@unzahid]

Wow! Inspiration.

[@emilyalban499]

Life is the biggest project you need to do what you want and what you need example work to be able to satisfy your needs. one of the things we must not forget is to learn from our mistakes like the children who try and do not give up, as if we had super powers, also not to forget to express our values, to be objective, to analyze that what I do is my future without wasting my time, to build my life like a tree.

[@anayazan9348]

Alejandra Albán I agree with your opinion, sometimes we let go our opportunities when we think so much about it, we have to be just like you said, like a kid, kids don’t care about what will happened next, they just live the moment and enjoy the present. We have to keep working in our life like a project, a project that could change our way of perception and make it so much better.

[@micaelaoleas5962]

I agree with you because, the life is just one and we must be happy and we need to think again like a child. The values reflect our way to be and the education gave by our parents in conclution, if you don't like something, you must change it.

[@janiramirama9653]

I agree with your opinion, we must take advantage of all the opportunities that are presented to us in order to project and design our lives and not give up the obstacles that arise, we must continue until we reach our goals and not see the obstacles as a problem, but as an opportunity to learn and improve something new.

[@harpalsingh1051]

Smart speaker 💯🧡🔥

[@shirishthakare9842]

Nice roadmap for all.

[@iXein6]

That is exactly what I´m doing this saturday and then this Ted Talk video comes up in my suggested playlist, E X C E L L E N T !

[@julie3454]

Miralda Sanchez what happened since last year ?😊

[@kaiyan1332]

"Being rich is important to our life. Why not being rich? Thank you." TED

[@tagaway6173]

KZbin recommended me this after listening to A Design For Life 🤔

[@lanhuongnguyen9988]

many thanks!!!!!

[@teguhkaswanto7179]

thank you so much

[@sohailahmedkhan8982]

Very good - Excellent

[@JTEmers]

,,, and now the 'how', ,,,

[@JillianSchleger]

Design the life you love by mapping out qualities that fulfill you, muscle test where there is resistance and shift the resistance with NLP. One component of NLP allows you to align that which you want but have resistance to ( limiting beliefs ) with what you already know you are good at.

[@shujamateen3335]

Jillian Schleger please help me and get useful advice to design my life

[@freeallday40]

One of my fave TEDTalks all-time

[@abdelazizelgoni254]

Fabulous 🤩

[@mehmood020]

Nice talk for a good designed life.

[@bonnyguillen1424]

If you can visualize the live you want then you can create it.

[@xasnaxahd3695]

As a muslim Our biggest project to design our life is to do good things and don't do the bad things , If you want to know more read Quran

[@maireadmaccy4336]

As a humanist, my own mind, tells me this, thanks. I don't need to read a book to know right from wrong. 👍

[@vivianeb90]

great idea. I will do it. But the deconstructed camera part made me sad. I wanted to repair it.

[@lynda_lou]

Beautiful woman!. Thank you 😊

[@khainguyen7403]

You too 🏹

[@vijayarya9528]

Thank you all very much

[@tagaway6173]

1:20 Great presentation but I dont like when speakers say "If blah blan blah, you can leave now" 😒🙄 nahh I paid ticket, I'm staying 🤪

[@vivianpatgreen]

Brilliant...

[@coolarun3150]

1.5 speed perfect

[@wordsmithasheesh2497]

Just by visualisation?

[@theresistance3818]

...Thank You

[@charbeltannios546]

Great...👍👍👍

[@tagaway6173]

Great presentation but I dont like when speakers say "If blah blan blah, you can leave now"

[@yamilelizarazo3786]

amazing !!!

[@martperu1109]

life itself doesnt have constraints but the society we built up

[@qorihelda5353]

Thats a good talk

[@hezebelbeing]

Wait...she forgot to tell me how to design the life I love. So, I went to her website...I think I'll just make a list of stuff I want to do and do it. ;)

[@elsagrace3893]

Heather Griffin exactly!

[@supot-oj5xs]

Very Good idea

[@boomtao]

A good start would be to redesign this lecture, so it has more usable content for the viewer. This was simply lame, self/congratulatory, and quite useless. It was not even inspirational.

[@favourdeo3277]

Awesome

[@captainjacksparrow5398]

Our life is our biggest project.

[@kytmackalyster46]

Very good

[@mugdhamg765]

Beautiful speech😊👌

[@nuryusufdiriye7561]

Great presentaıon, so ı wıll planıng thıs year to aprove my english language and to acheıve 7 score IELS exsam

[@AB-vq8ho]

The takeaway is DON'T deconstruct your camera, you can never put it back together again :)

[@engmoh4896]

It really need to redesign the presentation . I think that points can not help you to design your life .

[@AhmedKamal-ls6gu]

so benefit

[@phillipkanonhuhwa4996]

Interesting...

[@natalied6923]

VISUALISE!

[@zakihaida58]

Good

[@abbieamavi]

*seems like a sweet lady, love the outfit! Comments are pretty negative, but if you were bilingual I doubt you'd do as well* :)

[@iqbaluddin5169]

Less interesting than expected from seeing the title.

[@phillipchavez1321]

👌

[@rudraom9]

Welcome sweetheart

[@user-iv3do8es3z]

Well, it's good for English learners, who are excited about her understandable speech, but native speakers certainly get bored and disappointed

[@lokinggoodbrowneyegirl9557]

My plan Stan,

[@umbellavirushowaboutnow9963]

Already design but all answer is we us our

[@yami3928]

tell me what should i do everyday？

[@elsagrace3893]

So what am I supposed to do now? “Design your life” is a nice catch phrase. Sounds good but what does it mean? What are the steps? What is she talking about. Not helpful.

[@Supermiranda78]

Just listen, make a list!

[@safespaceasmr7166]

Design your own steps

[@safespaceasmr7166]

"Your life is your own blank canvas. "Paint whatever you want.

[@elsagrace3893]

Caren make a list of what? You are as vague as the video.

[@elsagrace3893]

safe space ASMR you are as vague as the video. And just parroting it.

[@jabeenfatima225]

Easier said than done

[@syedramizhussaini6316]

Managing a Good life is depended on the situation and country do we live. Becouse, It is very arduous to design a normal life in the situation that It makes the people far away from its own rights.

[@dilpreets.madhok8061]

You need to design this presentation better .. Good Luck !

[@dnsgilbert09]

I agree. It is so vague that I feel like I just wasted my time. I was hoping she could have told us how she found a way to incorporate her work life with her home life.

[@ysabelgonzales3333]

I agree, excellent title but not the presentation.

[@MammothBehemoth]

the wit was very cringey

[@AW-pw4iz]

Haha first time I went to see comments, because I wasn’t really impressed with presentation. Maybe she just have trouble speaking in English It’s my 2nd language too

[@hassannooree5301]

Ya it`s true so you must always thinking about the word you say friend if you floor that you will win friend anyhow have a nice time may ALLAH bless you friend! @786vendaskam

[@neviscameron4526]

Music came first rules afterwards